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    • That is a big improvement Dave and I do agree that it s best to leave it till the last moment to prevent VCS from countering your WS. [usually using doubtful logic that can't be easily argued against in a Court atmosphere] However my first post [no. 32] about the contract is the one that really exposes Jake's flummery and calls into  question jost how close he comes to committing perjury. And that is what hopefully VCS will not want questioned by a Judge. 
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    • The DVLA keeps two records of you. One as a driver and one for your car. If they differ you might find out in around a month when they will send you a reminder as well as to your other half for their car. If you receive nothing then you can be fairly sure that you were tailgating though wouldn't explain why they didn't pick up your car on one of drive past their cameras. However even if you do get a PCN later then your situation will not change. The current PCN does not comply with the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 Schedule 4 which is the main law that covers private parking. It doesn't comply for two reasons. 1. Section 9 [2][a] states  (2)The notice must— (a)specify the vehicle, the relevant land on which it was parked and the period of parking to which the notice relates; The PCN states 47 minutes which are the arrival and departure times not the time you were actually parked. if you subtract the time you took to drive from the entrance. look for a parking place  park in it perhaps having to manoeuvre a couple of times to fit within the lines and unload the children reloading the children getting seat belts on  driving to the exit stopping for cars pedestrians on the way you may well find that the actual time you were parked was quite likely to be around ten minutes over the required time.  Motorists are allowed a MINIMUM of ten minutes Grace period [something that the rogues in the parking industry conveniently forget-the word minimum] . So it could be that you did not overstay. 2] Sectio9 [2][f]  (ii)the creditor does not know both the name of the driver and a current address for service for the driver, the creditor will (if all the applicable conditions under this Schedule are met) have the right to recover from the keeper so much of that amount as remains unpaid; Your PCN does not include the words in brackets and in 2a the Act included the word "must". Another fail. What those failures mean is that MET cannot transfer the liability to pay the charge from the driver to the keeper. Only the driver is now liable which is why we recommend our members not to appeal. It is so easy to reveal who was driving by saying "when I parked the car" than "when the driver parked the car".  As long as they don't know who was driving they have little chance of winning in court. This is partly because Courts do not accept that the driver and the keeper are the same person. And because anyone with a valid motor insurance policy is able to drive your cars. It is a shame that you are too far away to get photos of the car park signage. It is often poor and quite often the parking rogues lose in Court on their poor signage alone. I hope hat you can now relax and not panic about the PCN. You will receive many letters from Met, their unregulated debt collectors and sixth rate solicitors threatening you with ever higher amounts of money. The poor dears have never read the Act which states quite clearly that the maximum sum that can be charged is the amount on the signs. The Act has only been in force for 12 years so it may take a  few more years for the penny to drop.  You can safely ignore everything they send you unless or until they send you a Letter of Claim. Just come back to us if they do send one of those love letters to you and we will advise on a snotty letter to send them. In the meantime go on and enjoy your life. Continue reading other threads and if you do get any worrying letters let us know. 
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I'm sure I saw a thread somewhere that said you can claim around £10 per hour of wasted time.

 

Also, I am a part time trader of car parts and this took me away from that activity,

 

but as with any business, the revenue is not constant so how would I be able to quantify

the worth of my wasted time?

 

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I'm sure I saw a thread somewhere that said you can claim around £10 per hour of wasted time. Also, I am a part time trader of car parts and this took me away from that activity, but as with any business, the revenue is not constant so how would I be able to quantify the worth of my wasted time?

 

In small claims track, you can be awarded costs at the litigant in person rate of £18 an hour if the other side is deemed to have behaved unreasonably. These costs are a substitute for the costs that you would have otherwise paid to a solicitor and would only apply to time spent on the litigation itself, not to time trying to sort the problem. So it would not apply for time spent until you actually come to start writing your claim form. This sort of costs is also quite rare as 'behaving unreasonably' has been interpreted quite strictly.

 

For time spent sorting out the problem, this can be claimed for but only if you have suffered quantifiable financial loss. This would be the amount of profit you lost as a direct result of not being able to do your normal business while sorting out the problems. This will be difficult to quantify so you'd have to come up with a reasonable estimate. If this gets to court, you would need to be able to explain how you arrived at that estimate and would ideally have some accounts to support your calculation. This sort of claim is linked only to the amount of loss you have suffered and is not linked to any particular hourly rate.

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ok,

 

I had a call from the CC company,

they said that the £18/hour rate I used as my time for preparing the claim is excessive and not normal.

 

can someone please confirm whether this is correct or incorrect?

 

he said that he would dismiss that part of the claim.

 

is this just a scare tactic? or him trying to get me to back down?

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I think you might have read that about court cases +£10k in fast track

£18phr is the costs you could claim when a court claim is over £10k thus fast track

litigant in person costs.

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DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

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are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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I think you might have read that about court cases

£18phr is the costs you could claim when a costs order has been made in court.

litigant in person costs.

 

only half understood that, does that mean the 18/hr rate is not applicable? someone within this thread told me it is...help?!

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you need to read post 28 properly it doesn't say use that...

 

 

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please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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I just read it again and to me that says 18phr is correct in the way that I used it.

 

can someone actually help me?!??!

 

I just got a call from MBNA saying that my claim is dismissed

and this 18phr stuff is totally rejected.

 

can someone who speaks normal English explain the 18phr rate?????

 

what kind of forum is this???

 

also, if they say that I cannot claim under s75,

 

does that mean I can take the merchant

 

and the bank to small claims court?

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MBNA cant dismiss a claim ...only the court can.

 

No particulars on your thread of what you have actually claimed or what stage you are up to so difficult to advise any further.

 

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can I email someone my claim so they can look at it?

 

I don't really want to put all that info on the net..

 

..my query was about this magical 18phr rate that I thought I could claim but apparently I cant (according to MBNA).

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You can only claim £18 per hour on wasted costs which is only applicable to Fast Track claims (over 10K)...if this is a small claim track claim your costs are restricted anyway and you can only claim the court fee.....should you be successful in the first instance.

 

If you would like to PM the details of your particulars and I will discuss it with the Site Team.

 

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thanks for explaining the 18phr thing in English so a layman like me can understand it.

 

I obviously look like a total noob in front of the bank now so I expect they are trying to scare me off with their response.

 

I will PM very soon,

 

many thanks Andy.

 

how do I attach a doc?

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You cant...just type out the particulars...did you submit it on MCOL ?

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Original text edited out as answered by your attachment.

 

The maf and software update were done at the BMW dealer?, were they both done at the same time ?

 

Also, you say "Upon picking the car up, I did a quick test to see if the sensors worked-they were still not working. I paid in full"

 

Why on earth would anyone pay for work not completed or carried out ?

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the maf exchange was done by me, it was a very simple job so I just did it.

 

the software update was done by a BMW specialist. not done at the same time.

I put the money through the letter box before I did the test.

 

also, I wasn't too worried at the time because I had been going to the merchant for years

and he had always been very honest and trustworthy.

I just thought, people make mistakes, we are all human, he will sort it later. not a big issue.

 

I know it seems weird but that's just the level of trust I had built up.

he trusted me enough to know that I would pay him and take the car,

I could have easily taken the car and not paid him on many many occasions

. he trusted me, I trusted him, that's just how it was.

 

You cant...just type out the particulars...did you submit it on MCOL ?

 

not MCOL, I went through the bank's procedure. if thee merchant does not come back with a reasonable offer, I am looking to go the MCOL route and court if necessary.

 

Hi, just wondering if the site team had any news for me? :)

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With regards to what Needadvice?

 

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There was some confusion with regards to you stating that you had made a claim...I thought it was a court claim...it transpires it is a section 75 claim.Within that claim you requested costs as a Litigant which the creditor then rejected the whole claim.

 

You cant request Litigant costs with a section 75 claim...a section 75 claim is not through a Court. You are a consumer not a Litigant.

 

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